Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Overall the SALT survey for Westerly Middle School was positive. If the feedback was not positive, the survey provided acheivable goals for improvement. Through personal experience, I would agree with the SALT survey conclusions that this is a great school with many aspects above the standard, however there are many ways in which this school could still improve.
Some positive aspects the survey expressed was the compassion of the teachers. The teachers are open to change and improvement, and work well collaborativly. Especially in a middle school setting, the teachers are compassionate, and the team structure of the school seems to adhere to the student's needs.
There is room for improvement in many areas of the school. According to the SALT survey, students do not feel as though there are common and clear expectations throughout the school. Students are also lacking skills in reading comprehension and deep understanding of the texts that they are reading. This then creates problems when the students are expressing themselves through writing. From observations here, I can see the lack of writing skills and reading comprehension in the science classroom. Reccomendations for the school includes having minimum reading requirements with accountability. It would be great to have students enter the middle school with a better grasp on reading comprehension, but as they do not, in general, the mandatory reading requirement with accountabilty seems like a good idea and should be implemented.
Westerly Middle School has great feedback, and the administrators and teacher need to work on a few more extremely important skills to make this middle school the best environment for the students.
Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Overall the SALT survey for Westerly Middle School was positive. If the feedback was not positive, the survey provided acheivable goals for improvement. Through personal experience, I would agree with the SALT survey conclusions that this is a great school with many aspects above the standard, however there are many ways in which this school could still improve.
Some positive aspects the survey expressed was the compassion of the teachers. The teachers are open to change and improvement, and work well collaborativly. Especially in a middle school setting, the teachers are compassionate, and the team structure of the school seems to adhere to the student's needs.
There is room for improvement in many areas of the school. According to the SALT survey, students do not feel as though there are common and clear expectations throughout the school. Students are also lacking skills in reading comprehension and deep understanding of the texts that they are reading. This then creates problems when the students are expressing themselves through writing. From observations here, I can see the lack of writing skills and reading comprehension in the science classroom. Reccomendations for the school includes having minimum reading requirements with accountability. It would be great to have students enter the middle school with a better grasp on reading comprehension, but as they do not, in general, the mandatory reading requirement with accountabilty seems like a good idea and should be implemented.
Westerly Middle School has great feedback, and the administrators and teacher need to work on a few more extremely important skills to make this middle school the best environment for the students.